PLACE-MAKING ITERATIONS
VISUALISING THE EVERCHANGING SPATIALITIES
The complexly related elements creating the spatial experience are categorized under three components forming the space phenomenon. Then, the elements identified as in line with these components are chosen from mesire and plaj typologies and are modeled to physically depict the conceptual relationships.
1stCOMPONENT -
PHYSICAL SPACE:
The sensory features of a space that can be physically perceived at an experience such as sounds, textures, smells, colours and more. All together they form the physicality of the space.
Although this component included vegetation, weather conditions, sounds and smells, colours and textures, and other physical features, in this model they are represented in an illustrative manner by using plywood topography models that are creating the bases of the model.
The landscapes, are determined as the aspects creating the first component in the studied typologies.
For mesires, the meadows are picked and for plajs, the sandy beaches.
-The base of the meadow model is derived from the CAD model of Istanbul topography and included Küçüksu and Göksu Meadows, hills looking over them, and a part of the Bosporus.
-The base of the beach model is iterated from the Caddebostan Beach section of the same Istanbul CAD model.
They both are produced by CNC milling.
ELEMENTS WITHIN THE SPACE
This component is formed by the interactions between the mobile elements constituting the space, including subjective participants and objects from fruits to vehicles. It acknowledges the momentary, transient aspects within a space. By doing so it introduces the concept of time in the spatial perception.
Based on this conceptualization, the objects and participants visible at mesire and plaj typologies are picked and categorized under this component. As mesires and plajs were spaces that became urban settings via temporary occupations and appropriations, beaches and meadows offered an opportunity to clearly distinguish the physical space as the first component from the objects present in temporary activities and occupations as the second.
The activities that are practiced on these landscapes and the temporary objects carried to and from there, and the temporary visitors are explored. They are determined as follows:
For mesires:
-oxcart
-rowboat
-carpet and food bundles
-floor blankets and baskets
-venders’ stools
-objects used for activities: musical instrument, shadow puppet curtains, chairs
-clothes, umbrellas and visitors
For plajs:
-boat/sail
-temporary cabins
-towels and umbrellas
-chairs and sunbeds
-venders’ carts
-camera
-swimsuits
-beachbags
-toys and balls
-swim-rings
The hand-crafted models of these objects are placed on metal ropes that are placed on pulleys. They are represented as dynamic components with the ability to move and appear in different locations within this conceptual demonstration. This way, the interactions and incidents happening with the introduction of time dimension is depicted.
ABSTRACT LAYER
The meanings, ideas, senses, and emotions that are iterated in relation to the spatial context are depicted. They are the aspects which give the space the attributes to become a place. It is the component that is formed by the accumulation of subjective interpretations.
The abstract component is represented in these models with semi-transparent textiles. Since this layer of the space is produced as the result of the space perception happening via engagements with other aspects of the space, the representative textiles are connected to different elements introduced as the secondary components of the space.
As these temporary elements move, get close to and far from each other physically and metaphorically, the relationship between them transform as the interpretations of the space and each other are changing. Consequently, the textiles’ forms, the transparencies and densities change.